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Hit hit 51 kph during last week's official autumn cruise (with a cop right behind me) Not only could he have given me a ticket for speeding (1 kph over) he could have stopped me for blocking traffic. He got caught behind me while I has blocking lol

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When I picked up my car I asked the sales person if I should keep it under a certain speed for the first couple of months.

Answer: "All BMW engines are broken in at the factory prior to installation, but its a good idea to keep it under 170 for a few days". Don't know if this is 100% true but I got a laugh out of it. I drove it home at a cautious 168.

I call BS on this one. All 318tis in NA are limited to 116 miles per hour from the factory. So theoretically the fastest you could've gone is ~186km/h only.

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Originally posted by bmw318ti96 Highest I went with my 318ti is 200km/h, the engine shuts down after that. From the ppl who live near me, did Buckingham Gatineau in like 5 minutes lol, 200 all the way on the highway :p pretty cool.

I pulled 150 MPH hour in my 98M3. Had this dude who was talkin s**t with me. Says his weak ass chevy camaro did 200. I was like oh yeah c'mon biatch!!!! Dude had like 60 series tires so when he tried to whip corners the body roll was ridiculous! Anyhow took him down a back country road where the spped limit is 45 MPH and decided to triple it!!! Dude then admitted he had never been 200MPH in his Camaro out of excitement......which I already knew just had to work it out of him.

Originally posted by thinair I've hit the governer at 206km/h in both my car and my mom's 525i. My speedo almost says 220 though, but I know as a fact that the speedo is limited to 206, plus a 7% speedo error sounds about right.

I was doing some math here, if you're on the stock 225/50/16 tires, have a 3.91 diff, and are reading 220km/h off the stock speedometer, then you're more then likely doing like 205km/h or so (7% error on the stock speedo, when I govern at 206km/h my speedo almost reads 220kmh), then you should be at like 6750rpm @ the true 205km/h, and 7250rpm @ 220km/h.

I'm with Pat on this one, to just get to 7400rpm you need some decent valvetrain strengthening (springs.....etc).

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Bone stock 94 325iS with 225/40ZR17 (front) and 245/35/ZR17 (rear) i hit 210 km/hn on the speedo then the guv. kicked in....

does that sound about right.....

BTW..this was done on QEW @ about 2 am with a friend who was driving ahead and i had to pull over to take a piss..then he called me and said theres no cars up untill a certain cutoff.....thats the only way I'll ever go that fast again.....even with no traffic or cops I was still shiting bricks...couldn't stop thinking of what would happen if a tire blew....mind you..i must say the car was vary stable at that speed and it felt like as if i could go faster if the guv. wasn't there....BMW's are amazing!!